Mounting for slide doors and windows



Patented Mar. 7, 1922.

ATTORNEY.

c. H. SNIDER. MOUNTING FOR SLIDE DOORS AND WINDOWS- APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12.' 1920.

UNITED s rarss CHARLES H. snrnnn, OFMOUNT rinasanm, iviromeanf MOUNTING son SLIDE noons Ann wmnows.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAiiLns H. Smear, a citizen of the United States. residing at Mount Pleasant, in the county of Isabella and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mountings for SlideDoors and VVindows,jof which the following is a specification.

The present invention has a reference to sliding door or window construction and aims to provide improved means-ofmount ing sliding doors and windows in such. a manner that they can be conveniently operated at all times, and without binding or sticking in damp and rainy weather.

An additional object is to provide an improved mounting structure capable of general application and designed to admit of use in connection with the closed tops 0r cabs of motor vehicles.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention may be said to reside generally in the details of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully pointed out and described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation, illustrating the application of the invention as viewed from the outside of the structure'to which it is applied;

Figure 2, a cross sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3, a side elevation, disclosing the invention as viewed from the inside, and

Figures 4 and 5, detail, fragmentary views, illustrating respectively, the top and bottom slide members.

The invention is intended to be used for any sl1d1ng window or door, where ease of operatlon is desirable, and is therefore not to be considered as limited to the particular application herein illustrated.

In the present embodiment of the invention, the supporting structure 1 may be either of wood, as in building construction, or leather, as in the case of an'auto vehicle side curtain. In either case, the window space 2, is provided, upon the inside, with bordering strips 3 and 4, extending longitudinally of the top and bottom edges of the window space, and forming respectively, the supports for the upper and lower track rails. These supporting strips are preferably of a width equal to the width of the sliding sashes, and may be fastened to the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 7, 1922.

Application filed November 12, 1920; Serial No. 423,643." f i supporting structure 1,v in any suitable manner.

The top track rail 5, is formed'offla long metallic strip, projecting beyond both sides of the window space, and made approxi-' mately V-shaped or angular,throughout its length to-engage the lower inside corner "of the strip or frame Depending from the underside of the rail '5 is a flange 6, which constitutes the upper guide rail or track. The lower'memberis formed of a flat metallic-strip, secured to the top edge of stripe, and having its innermost longitudinal edge extended upwardly to provide a trackrail 8, similar to upper rail 6, but slightlyolfset, with respect to the latter, as shown to advantage in Figure 20f the drawings.

Arranged for cooperation with thetracks are sash-carrying members 9 and 10, of similar construction so that a description of one will suffice for both of them. The sash carriers are respectively disposed along the up per and'lower edges of the sashes and each consists of a metallic strip, having a longitudinal portion extended angularly with respect to the flat or securing portion 11; the angularly disposed portion being folded upon itself to provide a channel or grooved member, as indicated at 12.

Each sash 13, has its upper and lower edge provided, in the one case with a recess 14:, and in the other with a cut away corner 15, to receive the channel bearing portion 12 of the carrier members, it being noted that the latter are fastened to the sashes, with the channel portions disposed inwardly, and the slot portions providing tread plates or sliding surfaces, for their respective sashes. When so arranged, the track rails 6 and 8, fit into the grooves or channels of the carrier portions 12 and 14:, and serve to prevent any lateral movement of the sashes, although permitting them to be freely moved longitudinally in either direction. Each sash may be separately provided with any suitable type of window, as indicated at 16, in order that a view of the outside may be obtained in rainy and inclement weather, when the window sashes are in closed position as illustrated in Figure 1.

Being freely slidable to'and fro between the upper and lower supporting rails, it is obvious that the window can be readily and conveniently opened by shifting the sashes to either side of the window space Where they are conveniently disposed out of sight from tween the slide units of the window construetion, permitting relative expansion and eliminating the binding and stalling defects usually occasioned when the sashes expand within their frames in inclement weather, tending to stick firmly in place, and resisting any attempt to move them to a shut or open position.

The advantages of a metallic mounting comprising interfitting, slidably engaged members, as above described, are thought to be evident, from the above disclosure, and its adaptability to uses other than that related to automobile tops, fully understood.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a device of the character described the combination with upper and lower supporting strips, of a top rail formed of a metallic strip having a depending guide flange, a lower rail comprising a metallic strip having an upstanding guide flange extending parallel to said first flange, an upper sash carrier arranged to be held between said flanges, said upper carrier including a se curing portion from which extends a downwardly extending channeled portion arranged to be held in a recess of a guide, said channel portion adapted to hold said downwardly extending guide'flange, and a lower sash carrier comprising an upstanding cl1annel portion extending from the securing por tion, said channel portion arranged to be held in a cut away portion of the sash and adapted to receive said lower guide flange, all substantially arranged as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. CHARLES H. SNIDER. Witnesses WALTER E. HILL, M. L. MCMAGKIN. 

